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GREEN Austin Homes For Sale

GREEN Real Estate in  Austin, Texas

There are many green homes & condos available in the Austin Metro area.  What green features are you looking for?

Lakeline Square Austin TX

Lakeline Square is a green town home project located just off 620 between Parmer & 183. It is the 1st new construction town home project in Austin to be 5 star rated in Austin Energy’s Green Building program.

Monte Vista Austin TX

A condo project with green options like bamboo flooring, low VOC paint, Energy Star appliances, tankless water heater & low flow faucets and toilets is the very reasonably priced Monte Vista 6000 Shepherd Mountain Cove, Austin, TX 78730 off 360 near the Pennybaker bridge. Monte Vista has GREAT VIEWS!  They advertise their Green units to use “40% less energy than comparatively sized units.”

904 West – Austin TX 78701

904 West is a condominium project with a solar array at 904 West Avenue in between 8th and 9th streets in downtown Austin. Rainwater collection, LED lighting and tankless water heaters, great walkability are some of the other features. Units are under 1,000 square feet.

Mueller Austin TX

The 711 acre Mueller development is an amazing brownfield redevelopment like Stapleton in Denver CO which was an old airport (I toured Stapleton in 2008). Mueller was once the old Austin Robert Mueller airport and is now a green, mixed use, new urbanist community being developed by Catellus. Mueller has won many awards including being number one in Natural Home magazine’s top ten planned communities list. Mueller hosted the 2009 Austin Texas Parade of Homes.

SOL Austin TX

SOL is an exciting new development in East Austin. SOL stands for Solutions Oriented Living & is billed as an affordable net-zero community with homes in the $300’s. SOL was featured on the 2010 Cool House Tour.

Agave Austin TX

There is also the Agave neighborhood and Nine Sixty Nine is a green project both off MLK, east of IH35.

Elm Grove, Buda TX

Elm Grove– is a 90 acre neighborhood located in Buda, Texas with homes featuring pedestrian walkways and 15 acres of open space as well as access to the Garlic Creek Greenbelt.

Georgetown Village Georgetown TX

Georgetown Village is a master-planned neighborhood in Georgetown with greenbuilt homes. Foam insulation and “conditioned” HVAC attic space are featured in these homes. Walking into an as yet unconditioned Georgetown Village Greenbuilders Inc. home in the heat of Summer reminded me of my first experience in the 1970’s of realizing thermal mass.

Rutherford West Driftwood TX

Rutherford West– Located south of Austin near Driftwood off FM 967.

Las Casas Verdes Austin TX

Las Casas Verdes is a green homes project on approx. 3 acres in South Austin with passive solar design, solar thermal, high SEER HVAC, metal roofs, SIP wall & roof panels, low VOC paints and more. I am doing Open Houses here.

Austin GREEN Homes and Projects

There are various other green homes available- I’d love to help you find the green features YOU are looking for. I know many builders who are building Energy Star all the way up to Net Zero homes. I know green cabinet makers who use no VOC materials, green lawn services, etc. I’ll be happy to help you understand greenbuilding and find just the right home or builder for your needs.

Betty Saenz is an Austin EcoBroker®  (GREEN REALTOR®) who helps people buy, sell, build green homes or retrofit an existing home to become greener in the entire Austin Texas Metro Area.

Austin GREEN Resources

 

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